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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 25, 1994Stanly County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 1994, 4:47 PM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 25, 1994, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Stanly County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1994-09-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 171 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1994-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
171 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHForsyth28 min
Sep 25, 5:15 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHStanly30 min
Sep 25, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRandolph33 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.